History VideoGame / PrayerOfTheFaithless

* AttackFailureChance: Offensive actions in this game never miss outside of the target having a counter stance. However, the Skill stat determines the chance for an attack to graze the target and deal less damage.

* CrutchCharacter: Amalie starts at level 16, Aeyr and Mia start at level 5. The latter two have low defenses, making it necessary to use Amalie's tanking abilities to keep them alive. However, due to the EXP scaling mechanic, lower-leveled characters will get more EXP and close the level gap faster than if EXP wasn't scaled.

* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: The Vergio Oracles lost their clairvoyant powers, but Serra Cadmus is the only one who regained her powers. Unfortunately, Oracles cannot refrain from announcing their prophecies, and the one she gives is "Fear the Revenant: The Vanguard of Ruin," which causes human civilization to panic about the end days. In order to quell this panic, Emperor Daigo orders her execution, so Serra has no choice but to flee Vergio and take her chances with the Fog.

* NintendoHard: Due to the game being in a post-apocalyptic setting, it's intentionally designed so that standard JRPG facilities like inns and shops are few and far between. Even normal encounters require the player to play carefully and efficiently in order to minimize damage and preserve resources, especially when they spam Miasma Charge to buff themselves up and enable their best skills. Sellable items aren't guaranteed to drop, which can make the resource management aspect of the game harder if the player is unlucky.

* LeakedExperience: When there are more than three party members, the three that are in the active party at the end of battle get full EXP while the reserve members get half EXP. However, the player spends most of the game controlling two three-person parties separately, so this feature isn't used until the endgame [[spoiler:when they have to fight Gauron's first form. In the Tired and Judged routes, the party consists of the five surviving characters, meaning the player will be able to continue using this feature in the Tower of Sinners. In contrast, the Resolve and Love routes, only have Aeyr and Mia in the party, leaving this feature unused for the Tower of Sinners.]]

* LifeMeter: There is a HP meter, representing the amount remaining as fractions of a red meter.

* AlwaysAccurateAttack: Offensive actions in this game never miss outside of the target having a counter stance. However, the Skill stat determines the chance for an attack to graze the target and deal less damage.

** Emperor Daigo can summon six elemental swords that attack as well. While the swords have fairly low health and defense, Daigo will revive or summon at least one every turn.

** Emperor Daigo can summon six elemental swords that [[SupportPartyMember spam buffs and debuffs]]. While the swords have fairly low health and defense, Daigo will revive or summon at least one every turn.

* {{Cap}}: The party can only hold ten of each consumable. At the end of the game, the cap gets raised to twenty because both parties' inventories are combined.

* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: In the Tired and Judged routes, Aeyr and Mia's face portraits change to remove the shine in their eyes, [[spoiler:showing that they hit emotional rock bottom due to killing each other. According to the developer, this something they have in common with Vanessa, who has already hit rock bottom a long time ago]].

* AnAxeToGrind: Axes are a weapon that Aeyr can wield, like the Soldier Axe. Unlike swords, these deal Strike damage.

* PostClimaxConfrontation: Gauron is the main source of the conflict in the endgame, [[spoiler:since killing him will limit the Fog being produced and end the threat of him becoming a rampaging Hellspawn. However, there's still a conflict to be settled with Vanessa, since she wants to die in the Tower of Sinners while the party wants her to live and/or atone for her crimes the hard way. The boss battle with her consists of the party trying to heal her and keeping her from killing herself, which is statistically much easier than fighting Gauron.]]

* PostFinalBoss: Gauron is the main source of the conflict in the endgame, [[spoiler:since killing him will limit the Fog being produced and end the threat of him becoming a rampaging Hellspawn. However, there's still a conflict to be settled with Vanessa, since she wants to die in the Tower of Sinners while the party wants her to live and/or atone for her crimes the hard way. The boss battle with her consists of the party trying to heal her and keeping her from killing herself, which is statistically much easier than fighting Gauron.]]

* TreacherousCheckpoint: When Mia goes through the final section of Purgatory and tries to use the save point, [[spoiler:the save point disappears and she's forced to run from Gauron for the rest of the section. Fortunately, the save point after this section is real.]]

** Vanessa's sword can be obtained after defeating her, and it's so heavy that it comes with a massive Skill penalty. [[spoiler:Vanessa has high Skill as a boss and has a high chance of parrying attacks, showing that she has both the strength and technique to use the sword effectively.]]

* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: The final fate of Gauron [[spoiler:is for his soul to be sealed into Aeyr, allowing the latter to maintain his Revenant powers and survive the Fog.]]

* SaveTheVillain: In the Tower of Sinners, the win condition [[spoiler:is to heal the boss, Vanessa, to full health. This is because the party wants her to live and convince her of the philosophical conclusion they came to.]]

* RapidAging: Manna age twice as fast as humans and most don't live past 10 because the Miasma within them eventually overwhelms them.

* RageAgainstTheHeavens: In the Tired route, Vanessa [[spoiler:learns the truth about the people of Kakuri and decides to climb the Tower of Sinners in an attempt to kill God for abandoning those outside of Kakuri. However, just like in the Resolve route, she also wants to die in the Tower because she can't handle the weight of her crimes.]]

* PermanentlyMissableContent: The game tends to lock the player out of older areas, making it important to grab as many supplies and beat as many optional bosses as possible before advancing the story.

** If a skill doesn't have a damage multiplier of 100%, its description will include the multiplier.

* PercentBasedValues: The Unbroken condition confers a 10% reduction in stats and receive less ExperiencePoints from battles.

* OffWithHisHead: In the Judged ending, [[spoiler:Mia presents Aeyr's severed head to the public in order to prove that she ended his threat to Asala. Despite how they've always wanted him dead, the Asalans start to fear Mia instead.]]

* NoSell:
** Manna and Revenants are a downplayed example. Both are more resistant to Miasma and Fog than humans, but Manna will eventually die from the Fog when they reach the age of 10 while Revenants eventually turn into Hellspawn monsters.
** The Infused play this straight, since they are completely fused with relics that allows them to process the Fog safely. [[spoiler:Since they have the best immunity to the Fog, Vanessa wants to turn as many humans as possible into Infused in order to preserve human civilization. Unfortunately, the Infusion process is unreliable and tends to destroy the subjects' minds, so Vanessa is unlikely to be able to make enough successful Infused to repopulate humanity after the Fog kills them all.]]

* NoSell: Manna, Revenants, and Infused are immune to being killed by Miasma.